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Re:Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy by specialist on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @03:08PM (#11904492)
"People get away with this because their vote doesn't matter."

Why doesn't voting matter? Gerrymandering? The money race? Duverger's Law? The electoral college?

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Re:Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy by yummyfajitas on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @03:11PM (#11904506)
Because your vote has essentially 0% chance of altering the outcome. Hence your expected cost from choosing wrongly is 0% x something = $0.
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Re:Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy by specialist on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @04:11PM (#11904965)
I asked why, not what.
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